Sky News Australia

Sky News Australia
Sky News Australia Logo
Launched 19 February 1996[1]
Owned by Australian News Channel Pty Ltd - BSkyB 33%, Seven Media Group 33%, Nine Entertainment Co. 33%
Picture format 576i (SDTV 16:9)
Audience share 0.1% (May 2011, OzTam[2])
Country Australia
Language English
Sister channel(s) Sky News Business Channel
Website www.skynews.com.au
Availability
Satellite
Foxtel Channel 601
Austar Channel 601
Cable
Foxtel Channel 601
Austar Channel 601
Optus Channel 601
Neighbourhood Cable Channel 21
IPTV
Xbox 360 Channel 601

Sky News Australia is an Australian 24 hour cable and satellite news channel available in 2.5 million homes on Foxtel, Austar, Optus Television and Neighbourhood Cable subscription platforms.[1]

Sky News Australia launched on 19 February 1996, as the first Australian-produced television news channel. The channel was added to Austar on 1 April 2000.[3] In 2004 Sky began broadcasting Sky News Active, its on-demand interactive TV news service.[1] In 2008 it launched the Sky News Business Channel, and on 20 January 2009 it launched Australian Public Affairs Channel (A-PAC). It began widescreen broadcasting on 17 May 2009.[4] In July 2010, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation launched ABC News 24 a free-to-air 24-hour news channel which competes with Sky News Australia.

Contents

Current Presenters

News Presenters

Sport Presenters

Reporters

  • Celina Edmonds - National Affairs
  • Ahron Young - Melbourne
  • Loretta Johns - Melbourne
  • Susie Wilson - Melbourne
  • Cameron Price - Sydney
  • Ashleigh Gillon - Perth
  • Michael Hopkin - Perth
  • Tom Connell - Brisbane

Canberra Bureau

  • David Speers - Political Editor
  • Kieran Gilbert - Reporter
  • Laura Jayes - Reporter

Correspondents

  • David Lipson - United States

Program Presenters

Substitute Presenters

Former Presenters

Programming

Current Programming

  • First Edition, between 5:30am - 9:30am.
  • First Business
  • News Day, between 10am - 4:15pm.
  • News Night, between 10pm - 1:30am.
  • Market Day
  • Sky National News, from 5pm - 8pm.
  • Sky Business Report
  • Health Report
  • Sportsline, 9:30am and 10:30pm.
  • AM, Lunchtime, PM and Late Agenda, 8:30am, 1:30pm, 4:15pm, 8pm (Mondays)
  • Saturday Agenda, 8:30am.
  • Australian Agenda, 8:30am
  • Sky News Sunday Business
  • Question Time
  • Sky News Eco Report
  • Book Report
  • Paul Murray Live, 9pm Monday-Friday
  • The Melbourne Report
  • The Punch
  • Playing Politics
  • The Nation with David Speers, 8pm Thursdays
  • The Contrarians, 8pm Fridays
  • Mamamia, 8pm Tuesdays, 9:15pm Fridays.
  • The Showdown with Peter Van Onselen, 8pm Tuesdays

Other Programming

Bureaux

Awards

2007

ASTRA AWARD: most outstanding performance by a presenter: David Spears (agenda) - Winner

ASTRA AWARD: Most Creative Use of Technology: Anytime, Anywhere - Nominated

2008

ASTRA AWARD: Most outstanding performance by a presenter: David Spears (agenda) - Winner

ASTRA AWARD: Most Outstanding Performance by a Broadcast Journalist: Kieren Gilbert - Winner

ASTRA AWARD: Most Outstanding Performance by a Broadcast Journalist: Mike Willesee - Nominated

ASTRA AWARD: Most outstanding performance by a presenter: Helen Dalley (Sunday business) - Nominated

ASTRA AWARD: Channel of the year - Nominated

ASTRA AWARDS: Favourite Male Personality: James Bracey - Nominated

ASTRA AWARDS: Favourite Male Personality: David Spears - Nominated

ASTRA AWARDS: Favourite Female Personality: Helen Dally - Nominated

ASTRA AWARDS: Favourite Female Personality: Brooke Forster - Nominated

ASTRA AWARDS: Most Outstanding News Program or Coverage- APEC 2007 -Winner

2009

LOGIE AWARD: Most outstanding news Coverage - Global Financial Crisis – Sky News Business - Nominated -

ASTRA AWARD: Most Outstanding News Program or Coverage - Global Financial Crisis – Sky News Business - Winner

ASTRA AWARD: Most Outstanding Performance by a Broadcast Journalist: David Speers – Sky News Australia - Winner

ASTRA AWARD: Favourite Male Personality: Kieran Gilbert – Sky News Australia - Nominated

ASTRA AWARD: Most Outstanding News Program or Coverage -Global financial crisis - Sky news Business - Nominated

Widescreen

Sky News began Widescreen broadcasting along with sister channels Sky News Business Channel and A-PAC on Sunday, 17 May 2009.[3]

Corporate

Sky News Channel's parent company Australian News Channel Pty Ltd is owned by British Sky Broadcasting, Seven Media Group and Nine Entertainment Co., each with a 33% stake in the company respectively.

Other Services

Sky News Multiview

With the roll-out of Foxtel Digital and Austar Digital, Sky News Australia launched the Sky News Active interactive news service based on the Sky News UK service with the same name. The service offered a choice of eight news screens, some with original content not seen on the main channel they vary depending on the days news or events and include the latest news, business, sport, showbiz and weather in text. Other features included interactive polling and the latest news headlines via text. On 15 November 2009 Sky News active re-launched with a new look as well as 5 additional local screens (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, and Adelaide [6]

Sky News Now

Sky News Now is a mobile service available on Vodafone, Telstra and 3 Mobile. It offers a wide variety of news in both video and text. Sky News also provides Mobile TV channels on the Mobile Foxtel service.

Sky News Alerts

Sky News Alerts is a SMS and MMS breaking news service available on all mobile phones inside Australia.[7] Breaking news alerts are sent to a subscriber via SMS or MMS at a cost per message.

Podcasting

Sky News offers various programs via podcast including First Business, Market Day, Sky Business Report, Showbiz, Agenda, Sky News Eco Report, Australian News Week, Sky News Sunday Business and Prime News New Zealand.

Sky News Business Channel

Main article: Sky News Business Channel

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c About Sky News
  2. ^ OzTam: National Subscription TV, 18:00-23:59, 15/05/2011-21/05/2011
  3. ^ "News on the Hour". Illawarra Mercury (Illawarra, Australia: Fairfax Media): p. 55. 17 March 2000. http://newsstore.fairfax.com.au/apps/viewDocument.ac?docID=news000318_0496_9436. Retrieved 26 January 2010. 
  4. ^ [1]
  5. ^ http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2011/06/sky-news-sacks-john-mangos.html
  6. ^ a b Sinclair, Lara (5 October 2009). "Stock Quotes". The Australian. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/business/story/0,28124,26163927-7582,00.html. 
  7. ^ Sky News Alerts

External links

Sky News Australia Presenters and Reporters
News
Leigh Hatcher · Sharon McKenzie · Terry Willesee · Nina May · Jacinta Tynan · Jim Waley · Michael Willesee, Jr. · Susanne Latimore · Vanessa Trezise
Sport
Chris Roe · Paul Gregg · James Bracey · Luke Doherty · Megan Barnard · Tiffany Cherry · Matt Shirvington · Sam Derrick · Yvonne Sampson · Ben Damon
Business
Helen Dalley · Brooke Corte · Bridie Barry · John Kerrison · Carson Scott · Ky Chow · James Daggar-Nickson · Lisa Creffield · Moira Sidoti · Nadine Blayney · Peter Switzer · Janine Perrett · Julia Lee · Margaret Lomas · Chris Gray
Canberra
David Speers · Kieran Gilbert · Ashleigh Gillon · Laura Jayes
Reporters
Celina Edmonds · Ahron Young · Loretta Johns · Gemma Veness · Ashleigh Gillon · Michael Hopkin · Cameron Price · Tom Connell
Program Presenters
Georgia Hawkins · Paul Murray · Mia Freedman · Peter Van Onselen
Substitute Presenters
Tracey Spicer · Celina Edmonds · Gemma Veness
Former Presenters
Juanita Phillips · Christine Kinninmonth · Georgie Gardner · Samantha Armytage · Karen Tso · Prue Lewarne · Kelly Nestor · Melanie McLaughlin · Amber Sherlock · David Koch · Tina Altieri · John Mangos · Murray Shaw · Natalie Murray · Roz Kelly · Nicole Webb · Richard Gonclaves · Craig Norenbergs · Garry Wilkinson
Channels
Defunct channels
Joint ventures
Magazines
See also